Mark Blayney

Having had a couple of gap years working for business which turned out to be in difficulty, and then taken an MBA, I qualified as a Chartered Accountant and then Licenced Insolvency Practitioner with what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers in order to pursue a career in business turnaround.

Having had secondments overseas (where I ran a match factory in Africa amongst other things) and into one of the clearing banks, I was project manager for setting up the firm’s Hands On Turnaround service, as well as briefly co-running the Business Recovery and Insolvency service line’s training department.

After 11 years with PwC I left to go into industry becoming involved in a business turnaround, then returned to the profession as a partner in a top 20 firm to set up a turnaround unit, before finally going freelance as an independent turnaround and business finance professional.

I currently co-run GPS Capital Ltd, a small PE house I co-founded which focusses on ‘special situations’ and am involved in our portfolio companies, as well as being a member of the Institute for Turnaround and European Association of Certified Turnaround Professionals.